Mungo Howard

Mungo Howard

Suburban study
40×30×4cm acrylic and render on board

$600

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My practice revolves around wandering; collecting fragments and using my camera to sample compositions within the everyday environment. I frequently employ mediated processes such as printing and casting, and I welcome the inescapable interference of chance variation within these systems of creation. The resulting works exist ambiguously as faux relics which refer to both the formal language of abstraction and to the legacy of the readymade through their found painterly compositions

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Artist statement from 2020 solo exhibition FACADE

I think my intention is to communicate the feeling of encountering these kinds of unconscious painterly things on urban wanderings, which is a kind of walking that has artistic precedents since the emergence of the modern city

I primarily use photography and casting as my means to incorporate these found compositions into paintings. In some ways they’re all personal souvenirs of specific places in particular moments in time, but open to being appreciated in a more formal sense as colours and textures within an abstract picture

My fascination with archaeological fragments and inscriptions comes out in the common focus on surfaces, particularly those of walls which also nod to a history of painting embedded within architecture and running from caves to frescoes and graffiti